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where he remained until 1870, when he was succeeded by the late 
Prof. Wyville Thompson. 
Cornell University will maintain summer schools during the coming 
summer in botany, entomology, geology, and zoology. 
Dr. G. K. Niemann, professor of geography and ethnology in the 
Indian Institute in Delft, Holland, has resigned after twenty-five 
years of service. 
Professor F. W. C. Areschoug, the well-known botanist, has resigned 
from his chair in the University of Lund, Sweden. 
The Natural History Society of St. Petersburg has established a 
biological station on the shores of Lake Bologoy. 
Recent appointments: Dr. R. T. Anderson, instructor in histology 
and embryology in Harvard Medical School. — V. H. Blackman, 
fellow in botany in St. John’s College, Cambridge. — Dr. G. Bodi, 
assistant in the botanical institute at Innsbruck, Austria. — Dr. G. 
P. Eaton, assistant in osteology in the Peabody Museum of Yale 
College. — Dr. Marcus S. Farr, curator of the zoological collections 
in the state museum at Albany, N. Y. — Stanley Flower, of Bang- 
ko, superintendent of the Cairo Zoological Gardens. — Dr. A. Y. 
Grevillius, of Miinster, assistant in botany in the agricultural experi- 
ment station at Kempen on the Rhine. — Professor Hofer, of Munich, 
. professor of geography in the University of Würzburg. — Mr. F. 
Hopkins, lecturer in chemical physiology in the University of 
Cambridge. — Dr. K. Keller, professor of zoology in the University 
of Ziirich. — John Alden Loring, assistant director of the New York 
Zoological Gardens. — Mr. Horace Middleton, fellow in zoology and 
physiology in Magdalen College, Cambridge. — E. A. Minchin, 
lecturer on biology in Gray’s Hospital Medical School, London. — 
Herbert Osborn, of Ames, Iowa, professor of zoology in the Univer- 
sity of Ohio at Columbus. — Wladimir I. Palladin, professor of 
botany in the newly established technical school in Warsaw. — 
Alexander Hamilton Phillips, assistant professor of mineralogy in 
Princeton University. — Dr. Mark V. Slingerland, of Cornell, state 
entomologist of New York. — Dr. F. R. Stubbs, instructor in his- 
tology in Harvard Medical School. — Dr. C. O. Townsend, botanist 
and plant pathologist of Maryland. — Mr. Swale Vincent, Sharpey 
physiological scholar and chief assistant in the physiological labora- 
tory of University College, London. — Dr. Frederick A. Woods, 
instructor in histology and embryology in Harvard Medical School. 
